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University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
Songfest
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1969, VOL. LX, NO. 120
tomorrow
Mexican-American leader at 8 p-m seeks constitutional rights
By RICKSENUTA
M exi ca n-A mericans have had their constitutional rights ignored for too long and are not fighting for what is legally theirs, said Reies Tijerina, president of the Federal Alliance of Land Grants.
In a speech sponsored by the Great Issues Forum in Hancock Auditorium yesterday, Tijerina said, “Our people have great fights which have been frozen. We have rights to land and culture. The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago is a document as good as a constitution to provide rights.”
The treaty, said Tijerina, was signed in 1848 to end the Mexican War. Congress, “with 300 years of hate for the Spanish,” he said, rejected Article
10 of the treaty “because it gave too much protection to the Indo-Americans.” President James Polk pushed for passage of the entire treaty and Mexico refused to sign it unless Article 10 remained.
Finally, the United States “made a gentleman’s agreement with Mexico and signed the treaty,” he said.
In 1858, according to Tijerina, some of the documents were mysteriously destroyed by fire. And in 1878, the governor of New Mexico got rid of the remaining ones. They were not found until
1916, when they appeared in St. Louis.
“This is all part of a conspiracy,” said Tijerina. “Protocol provides that land grants are valid in tribunals. The United States lost the treaty documents to avoid relying on them and then disregarded them when they turned up. The treaty needs life and blood, and people are life and blood. The white man will not help the treaty, so we must.
“Section 5 of Article 2 of the Constitution says that all treaties made by the United States are the surpeme law of the land. Therefore, our treaty is the law of the land. But not to the white man.” Tijerina said he felt his movement is important. “We are part of the United States and have an obligation to bring things to the surface. The constitution must hold for everyone—blacks, reds, browns and whites.”
Tijerina objected to the term Mexican-American. He preferred to call his people in the Southwest and in South American Indo-Spaniards to accurately designate their heritage and culture.
“Only through the Southwest will the whites be able to communicate with South American after the next 10 years,” Tijerina said. “And by the year 2000, there will be 600 million browns.”
Ambassador suggests key to world peace
The key to a stable world lies in respect for the independence and sovereignty of individual nations, the Romanian ambassador to the United States told a USC audience in the Hall of Nations yesterday.
“Every country has a role in the maintenance of peace and good relations by encouraging the- same laws for everybody.” Cornelieu Bogdan said in an interview following a noon luncheon at which he was the guest of the Political Science Department.
Bogdan said that the greater the nation, the greater the role in preventing violation of these principles on an international basis.
“If these principles are not allowed to be broken on an international level, it will be easier to avoid such infringements on a regional basis,” Bogdan said.
The ambassador said that a possible Russian invasion of Romania is speculative.
“Our relations with Russia are continuing in a normal way and are gradually improving,” he said.
In regard to speculation on the possibility of Warsaw Pact maneuvers in Romania, Bogdan said that as long as Romania is a member of this military alliance, the possibility could not be discounted. However, he said that decisions for such maneuvers have to be approved by the Romanian Par,;ament.
“We believe that at the mome: maneuvers in foreign countries should be denounced to discourage demonstrations of force,” he added.
Bogdan visited USC before leaving for San Diego, where he will address a political science class at the University of California at San Diego this afternoon.
He is traveling in California on an economic tour to meet with various groups and individuals interested in the possibility of expanding Romania’s economic ties with the United States.
GRADUATES TO HEAR FINCH
Robert H. Finch, United States secretary of health, education and welfare, will address the 2,500 graduating students and their guests at the 86th annual commencement exercises June 5 at 11 a.m. in Alumni Park.
The Very Rev. Donald Paul Merrifield, S.J., will speak on 'The Possibility of Hope," at the baccalaureate service at 7:30 p.m. on June 4, in Bovard Auditorium.
Both Finch and Mr. Merrifield will receive honorary degrees from USC at commencement exercises.
Finch, a graduate of the USC Law Center in 1951, was recently awarded the Asa V. Call Achievement Award for the USC alumnus who brings the greatest distinction to the university during the year.
Mr. Merrifield will become president of Loyola University in Los Angeles June 15.
Mary Elle Beta Phi, sings atop the knees of Greg Smith and his unidentified Pi Kappa Alpha brother.
Songfest ’69, the oldest and largest collegiate musical in the country, is tomorrow night at 8 in the Hollywood Bowl.
Danny Tomas, comedian and vocalist, will be the guest master of ceremonies, breaking the tradition of having a prominent member of the university as emcee.
Another highlight this year will be Lalo Schifrin as guest conductor. Schifrin, who won a Grammy Award for his score for “Mission: Impossible,” will lead the Songfest Neophonic Orchestra and the entire cast in the finale.
The finale, “Songs of Troy,” will be capped by Traveler, the Trojan mascot, appearing dramatically atop the hill overlooking the bowl.
Over 700 students will be competing in front of four judges for the coveted “Tommy” award.
Judges including Johnny Mercer, who has won three Academy Awards for such songs as Moon River: John Scott Trotter, who did the score for the “Peanuts” television specials: Nathan Scott, who has done scores for “Twilight Zone,” “Gunsmoke.” and “Lassie,” and Jimmy Joyce, who has been choral director for the Bing Crosby, the Smothers Brothers shows and the Glen Campbell Summer Show.
Songfest ’69 includes singing, choreography, costumes, lighting and backdrops similar to those of a Broadway play.
Included in the program are numbers by Alpha Delta Pi and Phi Delta Theta; Pi Beta Phi and Pi Kappa Alpha; Delta Delta Delta and Phi Gamma Delta; Alpha Phi and Phi Sigma Kappa; Gamma Phi Beta and Phi Kappa Tau; Alpha Gamma Delta and Delta Sigma Phi, Trojan Knights; Alpha Gamma Delta; the Cheshire Cat; Sigma Phi Epsilon; the Sigma Nu Little Sisters and Kappa Alpha Order.
Next week, Songfest ’69 will be rebroadcast on KUSC and excerpts will be in a special on KTLA, Channel 5.
Tickets for Songfest ’69 may be purchased for $4, S3 and $2 in front of the Student Union from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; in the Student Union; at all Automobile Club offices or at the gate. Proceeds will go to the University Scholarship Fund.
WOMEN HONORED; NO SCHOLAR AWARDS
An old Trojan tradition is being reborn, but another is dying.
After a four-year period of death, the Women's Recognition Assembly is being revitalized, but at the same time there will be no Scholastic Awards Convocation this year.
The assembly will be held Monday at 7:30 p.m. on the second floor of the Student Activities Center, and is open to all women students and parents.
Dean Joan Schaefer said, "This year the awards will be presented along with a student art exhibit and films.
"We simply want to recognize people who have been creative in their leadership, and who have been unique in enriching the lives of their fellow students."
One important award which will be given is the Emma Bovard Award. It will be presented by the Faculty Wives' Club in dedication to the memory of Mrs. Bovard, wife of the fourth president of the university. Dr. George Finley Bovard. The award symbolizes Emma Bovard's interest in university students and is given each year to the woman who attains the highest scholarship average during her four-year undergraduate course at USC.
Events scheduled for the program include tapping of new Mortar Board members, a presentation of officers for various organizations and the recognition of scholarship recipients from Town and Gown Junior Auxiliary and Trojan Junior Auxiliary. Honors will also be given the Women of Troy.
Other awards to be given are the YWCA Award, the Community Service Award, the Alpha Lambda Delta Award and the Women's Housing Association Award.
2 win unique fellowships
By STEVE MARNELL
Two senior political science honor students, David Krinsky and Keith Keener, have been awarded graduate fellowships from the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University.
The nationally unique program offered at the institute is designed to train junior political executives, young people who desire to pursue a government career through political channels rather than through the traditional civil service route.
Admission to the one-year program is highly selective—only 14 students are annually chosen nationwide. Krinsky and Keener are the first two Eagleton Fellows ever chosen from USC.
Krinsky and Keener have crossed paths many times throughout their academic lives. They attended high school together at Taft High, in the San Fernando Valley. In their senior years, both participated in the resident honors program for high school students at USC.
As regular students here, both became political science honor students, teaching assistants and dorm resident advisers. They now joke, “Someday we’ll run against each other for President.”
Krinsky plans to attend law school after completing his year at Eagleton, with Harvard, Yale and Stanford Law Schools in mind. He wants to be active in politics, but is now more interested in working for a candidate than actually running for political office himself.
Keener has had his future planned for a long time. “I’ve had political ambitions for eight years,” he said. He added that Eagleton was the ideal graduate school preparation for the life he seeks, because, he said, “I am not that academically oriented.” He is also considering studying law, at Harvard, Yale, or University of Chicago.
They will begin at the Eagleton Institute on Sept. 11.
Students at Eagleton are schooled in the technical skills of the American political system, as well as the usual academics of political science.
The technical training is embodied in a seminar in practical politics, which includes study in political party organization, party finance, political campaigning, the role of the political party in executive-legislative relations, pressure groups and lobbies.

University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
Songfest
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1969, VOL. LX, NO. 120
tomorrow
Mexican-American leader at 8 p-m seeks constitutional rights
By RICKSENUTA
M exi ca n-A mericans have had their constitutional rights ignored for too long and are not fighting for what is legally theirs, said Reies Tijerina, president of the Federal Alliance of Land Grants.
In a speech sponsored by the Great Issues Forum in Hancock Auditorium yesterday, Tijerina said, “Our people have great fights which have been frozen. We have rights to land and culture. The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago is a document as good as a constitution to provide rights.”
The treaty, said Tijerina, was signed in 1848 to end the Mexican War. Congress, “with 300 years of hate for the Spanish,” he said, rejected Article
10 of the treaty “because it gave too much protection to the Indo-Americans.” President James Polk pushed for passage of the entire treaty and Mexico refused to sign it unless Article 10 remained.
Finally, the United States “made a gentleman’s agreement with Mexico and signed the treaty,” he said.
In 1858, according to Tijerina, some of the documents were mysteriously destroyed by fire. And in 1878, the governor of New Mexico got rid of the remaining ones. They were not found until
1916, when they appeared in St. Louis.
“This is all part of a conspiracy,” said Tijerina. “Protocol provides that land grants are valid in tribunals. The United States lost the treaty documents to avoid relying on them and then disregarded them when they turned up. The treaty needs life and blood, and people are life and blood. The white man will not help the treaty, so we must.
“Section 5 of Article 2 of the Constitution says that all treaties made by the United States are the surpeme law of the land. Therefore, our treaty is the law of the land. But not to the white man.” Tijerina said he felt his movement is important. “We are part of the United States and have an obligation to bring things to the surface. The constitution must hold for everyone—blacks, reds, browns and whites.”
Tijerina objected to the term Mexican-American. He preferred to call his people in the Southwest and in South American Indo-Spaniards to accurately designate their heritage and culture.
“Only through the Southwest will the whites be able to communicate with South American after the next 10 years,” Tijerina said. “And by the year 2000, there will be 600 million browns.”
Ambassador suggests key to world peace
The key to a stable world lies in respect for the independence and sovereignty of individual nations, the Romanian ambassador to the United States told a USC audience in the Hall of Nations yesterday.
“Every country has a role in the maintenance of peace and good relations by encouraging the- same laws for everybody.” Cornelieu Bogdan said in an interview following a noon luncheon at which he was the guest of the Political Science Department.
Bogdan said that the greater the nation, the greater the role in preventing violation of these principles on an international basis.
“If these principles are not allowed to be broken on an international level, it will be easier to avoid such infringements on a regional basis,” Bogdan said.
The ambassador said that a possible Russian invasion of Romania is speculative.
“Our relations with Russia are continuing in a normal way and are gradually improving,” he said.
In regard to speculation on the possibility of Warsaw Pact maneuvers in Romania, Bogdan said that as long as Romania is a member of this military alliance, the possibility could not be discounted. However, he said that decisions for such maneuvers have to be approved by the Romanian Par,;ament.
“We believe that at the mome: maneuvers in foreign countries should be denounced to discourage demonstrations of force,” he added.
Bogdan visited USC before leaving for San Diego, where he will address a political science class at the University of California at San Diego this afternoon.
He is traveling in California on an economic tour to meet with various groups and individuals interested in the possibility of expanding Romania’s economic ties with the United States.
GRADUATES TO HEAR FINCH
Robert H. Finch, United States secretary of health, education and welfare, will address the 2,500 graduating students and their guests at the 86th annual commencement exercises June 5 at 11 a.m. in Alumni Park.
The Very Rev. Donald Paul Merrifield, S.J., will speak on 'The Possibility of Hope," at the baccalaureate service at 7:30 p.m. on June 4, in Bovard Auditorium.
Both Finch and Mr. Merrifield will receive honorary degrees from USC at commencement exercises.
Finch, a graduate of the USC Law Center in 1951, was recently awarded the Asa V. Call Achievement Award for the USC alumnus who brings the greatest distinction to the university during the year.
Mr. Merrifield will become president of Loyola University in Los Angeles June 15.
Mary Elle Beta Phi, sings atop the knees of Greg Smith and his unidentified Pi Kappa Alpha brother.
Songfest ’69, the oldest and largest collegiate musical in the country, is tomorrow night at 8 in the Hollywood Bowl.
Danny Tomas, comedian and vocalist, will be the guest master of ceremonies, breaking the tradition of having a prominent member of the university as emcee.
Another highlight this year will be Lalo Schifrin as guest conductor. Schifrin, who won a Grammy Award for his score for “Mission: Impossible,” will lead the Songfest Neophonic Orchestra and the entire cast in the finale.
The finale, “Songs of Troy,” will be capped by Traveler, the Trojan mascot, appearing dramatically atop the hill overlooking the bowl.
Over 700 students will be competing in front of four judges for the coveted “Tommy” award.
Judges including Johnny Mercer, who has won three Academy Awards for such songs as Moon River: John Scott Trotter, who did the score for the “Peanuts” television specials: Nathan Scott, who has done scores for “Twilight Zone,” “Gunsmoke.” and “Lassie,” and Jimmy Joyce, who has been choral director for the Bing Crosby, the Smothers Brothers shows and the Glen Campbell Summer Show.
Songfest ’69 includes singing, choreography, costumes, lighting and backdrops similar to those of a Broadway play.
Included in the program are numbers by Alpha Delta Pi and Phi Delta Theta; Pi Beta Phi and Pi Kappa Alpha; Delta Delta Delta and Phi Gamma Delta; Alpha Phi and Phi Sigma Kappa; Gamma Phi Beta and Phi Kappa Tau; Alpha Gamma Delta and Delta Sigma Phi, Trojan Knights; Alpha Gamma Delta; the Cheshire Cat; Sigma Phi Epsilon; the Sigma Nu Little Sisters and Kappa Alpha Order.
Next week, Songfest ’69 will be rebroadcast on KUSC and excerpts will be in a special on KTLA, Channel 5.
Tickets for Songfest ’69 may be purchased for $4, S3 and $2 in front of the Student Union from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; in the Student Union; at all Automobile Club offices or at the gate. Proceeds will go to the University Scholarship Fund.
WOMEN HONORED; NO SCHOLAR AWARDS
An old Trojan tradition is being reborn, but another is dying.
After a four-year period of death, the Women's Recognition Assembly is being revitalized, but at the same time there will be no Scholastic Awards Convocation this year.
The assembly will be held Monday at 7:30 p.m. on the second floor of the Student Activities Center, and is open to all women students and parents.
Dean Joan Schaefer said, "This year the awards will be presented along with a student art exhibit and films.
"We simply want to recognize people who have been creative in their leadership, and who have been unique in enriching the lives of their fellow students."
One important award which will be given is the Emma Bovard Award. It will be presented by the Faculty Wives' Club in dedication to the memory of Mrs. Bovard, wife of the fourth president of the university. Dr. George Finley Bovard. The award symbolizes Emma Bovard's interest in university students and is given each year to the woman who attains the highest scholarship average during her four-year undergraduate course at USC.
Events scheduled for the program include tapping of new Mortar Board members, a presentation of officers for various organizations and the recognition of scholarship recipients from Town and Gown Junior Auxiliary and Trojan Junior Auxiliary. Honors will also be given the Women of Troy.
Other awards to be given are the YWCA Award, the Community Service Award, the Alpha Lambda Delta Award and the Women's Housing Association Award.
2 win unique fellowships
By STEVE MARNELL
Two senior political science honor students, David Krinsky and Keith Keener, have been awarded graduate fellowships from the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University.
The nationally unique program offered at the institute is designed to train junior political executives, young people who desire to pursue a government career through political channels rather than through the traditional civil service route.
Admission to the one-year program is highly selective—only 14 students are annually chosen nationwide. Krinsky and Keener are the first two Eagleton Fellows ever chosen from USC.
Krinsky and Keener have crossed paths many times throughout their academic lives. They attended high school together at Taft High, in the San Fernando Valley. In their senior years, both participated in the resident honors program for high school students at USC.
As regular students here, both became political science honor students, teaching assistants and dorm resident advisers. They now joke, “Someday we’ll run against each other for President.”
Krinsky plans to attend law school after completing his year at Eagleton, with Harvard, Yale and Stanford Law Schools in mind. He wants to be active in politics, but is now more interested in working for a candidate than actually running for political office himself.
Keener has had his future planned for a long time. “I’ve had political ambitions for eight years,” he said. He added that Eagleton was the ideal graduate school preparation for the life he seeks, because, he said, “I am not that academically oriented.” He is also considering studying law, at Harvard, Yale, or University of Chicago.
They will begin at the Eagleton Institute on Sept. 11.
Students at Eagleton are schooled in the technical skills of the American political system, as well as the usual academics of political science.
The technical training is embodied in a seminar in practical politics, which includes study in political party organization, party finance, political campaigning, the role of the political party in executive-legislative relations, pressure groups and lobbies.